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100 Best Sympathy Quotes And Sayings

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Sympathy Quotes

Sympathy Quotes: Sympathizing with your grieving loved ones is not a walk in the park. You have to comfort them and make them believe that everything will be okay. A perfect way of doing this is by sending sympathy quotes and consoling messages which will let them know that you are with them in these trying times and promise them that everything will be right.

We have carefully selected Sympathy Quotes and consoling messages which you can send to your grieving loved ones as a reminder that you are concerned about them and you are with them every step of the way.

Sympathy Quotes

Here are Sympathy Quotes. 

1. “May you find comfort in loving memories, strength in the support of those who care, and hope in each new day.” – Unknown

2. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou

3. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi

4. “May love be what you remember most.” – Darcie Sims

5. “When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure.” – Unknown

6. “The sun, the moon, the wind, the stars, will forever be around, reminding you of the love you shared, and the peace she’s finally found.” – Unknown

7. “Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end.” – Unknown

8. “It is not length of life, but depth of life.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

9. “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” –Abraham Lincoln

10. “Perhaps they are not stars, but rather openings in heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy.” – Eskimo Proverb

Sympathy Quotes In English

Here are Sympathy Quotes In English. 

11. “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” – Hebrews 13:5

12. “Like a bird singing in the rain, let grateful memories survive in a time of sorrow.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

13. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” – Mahatma Gandhi

14. “Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” – Emily Dickinson

15. “If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson

16. “A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again.” – Maya Angelou

17. “He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

18. “Only a moment you stayed, but what an imprint your footprints have left on our hearts.” –Dorothy Ferguson

19. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” – Helen Keller

20. “What is lovely never dies, but passes into another loveliness, Star-dust or sea-foam, Flower or winged air.” – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Best Sympathy Quotes

Here are Best Sympathy Quotes.

21. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.” – Matthew 5:4

22. “Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest.” – Matthew 11:28

23. “Sympathy extended to another is the expression of the human heart demonstrating that love is true and wholesome.” – Byron R. Pulsifer

24. “However, you choose to show sympathy – that you know someone is experiencing a loss and that you care – is almost always better than saying and doing nothing. Your response, whether verbal, written, or visual, provides an indication that you care about other people.” – Carol Fredericks Ebeling

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25. “May you take comfort in knowing there is one more angel above us.” –Unknown

26. “May the love of God heal you as the burden in your heart abounds.” –Unknown

27. “We pray the love of God enfolds you during your journey through grief. We send you thoughts of comfort.” – Unknown

28. “And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philemon 4:7

29. “The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.” – Abraham Lincoln

30. “I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love.” – Leo Buscaglia

Sympathy Quotes And Sayings

Here are Sympathy Quotes And Sayings.

31. ”One day He’ll give us the answers to questions that now plague our mind,
When our journey on earth has been ended, and our hardships are all left behind.” – Greta Zwaan

32. “Grief is very personal to each of us and so there can be no one method to help all; but if one message or one phrase can bring a gentle peace of mind and heart to those feeling grief’s sorrow, then that is a good thing to hope for.” – E.E.D Horton

33. “While we are mourning the loss of our friend, others are rejoicing to meet him behind the veil.” – John Taylor

34. “You must look forward because if you don’t, you’ll be stuck. You’ll become a victim who longs for sympathy and you wouldn’t want to go there.” – Noel Rosos

35. “Write a sympathy note full of memories. Perhaps you have a special memory from a visit or a past holiday you can mention. You can also relay any funny anecdotes you remember from school or teen years, or holidays or work. Sharing memories for the family is a lovely thing to do. Sometimes the family learn new things about their loved one that they never knew.” – Elizabeth Postle

36. “May loving memories ease your loss and bring you comfort.” – Unknown

37. “Sending you my love and comfort. Deepest sympathies for your loss” – Unknown

38. “May the sorrow you feel in your heart lighten by the love that surrounds you.” – Unknown

39. “I am with you through this difficult time.” – Unknown

40. “Those we have held in our arms for a little while, we hold in our hearts forever.” – Unknown

Sympathy Sayings

Here are Sympathy Sayings.

41. “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.” – Isaiah 43:2

42. “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” – Psalm 46:1

43. “When you lose someone you love, you gain an angel you know.” —Unknown

44. “For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.” – William Penn

45. “Please know that I am praying for your peace and comfort.” – Unknown

46. “May He who knows your sorrow bring peace, comfort, and healing to your soul.” – Unknown

47. “Earth hath no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.” –Thomas Moore

48. “There are some who bring a light so great to the world that even after they have gone, the light remains.” – Unknown

49. “Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” –Vicki Harrison

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50. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” –Helen Keller

Famous Sympathy Quotes

Here are Famous Sympathy Quotes.

51. “Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” –Terri Guillemets

52. “It’s hard to forget someone who gave you so much to remember. –Unknown

53. “Wishing you strength for today and hope for tomorrow.” –Renee O’neill

54. “There are no goodbyes for us. Wherever you are, you will always be in my heart.” –Mahatma Gandhi

55. “Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains. –Kahlil Gibran

56. “There is no pain so great as the Memory of joy in present grief.” —Aeschylus

57. “May you take comfort in knowing there is one more angel above us.” –Unknown

58. “Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell.” –Joni Mitchell

59. “Darkness may hide the trees and the flowers from the eyes but it cannot hide love from the soul.” –Rumi

60. “Across the years I will walk with you, in deep green forests, on shores of sand and when our time on earth is through, in heaven too, you will have my hand!” –Robert Sexton

Famous Sympathy Quotes

Here are Famous Sympathy Quotes.

61. “What is lovely never dies, But passes into other loveliness.” –Thomas Bailey Aldrich

62. “As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.” –Leonardo Da Vinci

63. “Those we love don’t go away, they walk beside us everyday.” –Unknown

64. “There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life’s sores the better.” – Oscar Wilde

65. “It is by a wise economy of nature that those who suffer without change, and whom no one can help, become uninteresting. Yet so it may happen that those who need sympathy the most often attract it the least.” –  F. H. Bradley

66. “Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.” – Isaiah 41:10

67. “God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” – Psalm 46:1

68. “For it is you who light my lamp; the LORD my God lightens my darkness.” – Psalms 18:28

69. “Our joys will be greater, our love will be deeper, our life will be fuller because we shared your moment.” – Unknown

70. “Do not think of me as gone.  I am with you still in each new dawn.” – Native American Poem

Short Sympathy Quotes

Here are Short Sympathy Quotes.

71. “Those we have held in our arms for a short while we hold in our hearts forever.”  – Unknown

72. “Say not in grief ‘he is no more’ but in thankfulness that he was.” – Hebrew Proverb

73. “Once upon a memory someone wiped away a tear, held me close and loved me, Thank you, dear.” – Unknown

74. “The objective is not to forget, but to remember to go on.” – Unknown

75. “What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.” —Helen Keller

76. “When I am lonely, I think of you and all that you brought to my life. Your memory rests gently on my soul.” –Cindy Adkins

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77. “The sun, the moon, the wind, the stars, will forever be around, reminding you of the love you shared, and the peace she’s finally found.” – Unknown

78. “How very softly you tiptoed into our world, almost silently, only a moment you stayed. But what an imprint your footsteps have left upon our hearts.” –Dorothy Ferguson

79. “To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.” –Thomas Campbell

80. “Gone but not forgotten.” – Unknown

Sympathy Quotes For Loss

Here are Sympathy Quotes For Loss.

81. “And then I heard the angel say, ‘She’s with you every day.’” – Unknown

82. “Hoping you feel surrounded by much love.” –Unknown

83. “When you find yourself alone and hurting, nearly total strangers will offer their advice and help and encouragement. Women are the caregivers and they really do care. Amazing contacts are made – in the grocery check-out line, at the bank teller, with the neighbor down the street. They listen with sympathy and compassion and they all have bits of advice for you. Heed them.” – Jill Charlotte Stanford

84. “Those we love don’t go away,
They walk beside us every day,
Unseen, unheard, but always near,
Still loved, still missed and very dear.” – Unknown

85. “Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow” – Unknown

86. “Those we love and lose are always connected by heartstrings into infinity.” – Terri Guillemets

87. “May your memories give you strength. My prayers are with you.” – Unknown

88. “There is no foot too small that it cannot leave an imprint on this world” – Unknown

89. “Grant but memory to us and we lose nothing by death.” –Whittier

90. “Words seem inadequate to express the sadness we feel we for and your family. We are here to help, support, and do whatever you need done.” – Unknown

Sympathy Quotes For A Friend

Here are Sympathy Quotes For A Friend.

91. “When there are no words to say, know that I’m always here for you.” – Danielle Duckery

92. “You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to FEEL the loss.” – Mandy Hale

93. “Not only today, but always remember that I love and care about you.” – Unknown

94. “Nothing will ever take away our memories. May your memories be ones that give you comfort and reminders of happier times.” – Catherine Pulsifer

95. “I am at a loss for words during this sorrowful time. Please know that I am thinking of you and praying for peace and comfort.” – Unknown

96. “The Remembrance of the good done by those we have loved is the only consolation when we have lost them.” – Demoustier

97. “Your loved one is now resting, don’t fill your life with tears, let your memories bring you comfort remember all the good years.” – Unknown

98. “Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.” – Written on a Headstone in Ireland

99. “For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.” – William Penn

100. “As long as I can I will look at this world for both of us, as long as I can, I will laugh with the birds, I will sing with the flowers, I will pray to the stars, for both of us.” – Unknown

Positive and reassuring words have a way of giving hope to those who grieve, and these Sympathy Quotes can do just that.

Just make sure you don’t add too much fluff to it and make it too bulky, as it is a bad idea to send a long condolence message to one who is grieving

Remember, sharing is caring.

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